Everything in life begins with creativity. If you don’t know where to go, keep going. Eventually you’ll end up somewhere.

 

The Lyceum Gallery, Toronto
www.thelyceumgallery.com
Lyceum Exhibition Page
969 Queen St W Toronto ON
March 3-20th 2022
Note: The VR Gallery is up. At this time if you would like to listen to the songs while you see the art they are influenced by, please stream the Music Bandcamp Playlist under the VR link.
VR Gallery Link here
Animated videos can be watched here

A genre‑bending multimedia immersive audio‑visual album experience:

Unpredictability and improvisation are fixtures of Teper’s ethos. This process has developed an ever-flowing body of musically inspired collaborative contemporary art she calls Ronley Teper and The Lipliners, which combines the energies of so many creators all connecting through the process of sharing stories. An album spinning out an array of musical genres further evolved into a curated invitation/commission by Teper to 17 artists to create a piece from songs on the album. These were the catalyst to the works you’ll see in this exhibition.  Stories begetting more stories in an array of mediums from animation, granite stone sculpture, performance stills, collage, a miniature, puppets and more appear in the exhibition.

This sonic pastiche will be visualized in the gallery space, opening March 3rd and running until March 20th, 2022. Visual artists include Nava Waxman, Walt Rickli, Kate Domina, Meghan Mcknight, Davide Di Saro, Katie Sawatsky, Carolyn Tripp, Denni Freedman, Yesim Tosuner, Virpi Kettu, Ben Baird, Shona Chornenki, Aly Livingston, Francisco Ribas-Bordas, Eileen Jerrett, 3D animated shorts and a multi sensory AR component & online VR immersive exhibition created by Saúl Lederman. VR online exhibit will launch here on March 3rd.

Music


Video

Watch the 3D Animated Short by contributing artist Saúl Lederman for “Everyone Loves A Good Story”

Credits

Visual & Multimedia Artists

Saúl Lederman – Everyone Loves A Good Story, Cohabiting Lovers & Everybody’s Friend 3D animated shorts, AR, virtual reality, and design of the immersive exhibition
Yesim Tosuner – New Love, pencil on paper, digital illustration
Nava Waxman – Everyone Loves A Good Story, performance still, Matriarch 2015; dance, choreographic object and end drawing in the 3D animated short ELAGS
Meghan McKnight – Crazy Times, time-lapse, stop animation, and collage print
Virpi Kettu – New Love, stop animation, 2D animation, felted puppets
Davide Di Sarò – Pimple On The Nose*, animation, 2D, 3D, hand drawn, & digital illustration print & digital print.
Carolyn Tripp – Big Black Clouds, animated short & digital illustration print
Kate Domina – Love Again, oil on canvas
Walt Rickli – Stuff, stone, bronze, beeswax
Aly Livingston – Cohabiting Lovers, recycled fabrics & textures
HIERAM – Crazy, acrylic on canvas, collage
Katie Sawatsky – Everybody’s Friend, digital illustration
Francisco Ribas Bordas- Alright, ink on paper & digital colouring
Denni Freedman -Everyone Loves A Good Story, miniature
Shona Chornenki – Love Again, collage, acrylic paint, cigar box
Ben Baird – Everyone Loves A Good Story, the LP -watercolour & 3D wearable wire and florals mask/hat combo
Eileen Jerrett – Everyone Loves A Good Story, the LP, New Love, Stuff, Everybody’s Friend, Alright

 

MUSIC

Ronley Teper – vocal all tracks & acoustic guitar track 11
Jesse Baird – drums, all tracks
Vivienne Wilder – upright bass tracks 7, 9, 10, 11 & electric bass tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8
Christine Bougie – lap steel tracks 2, 9, 10, 11 & electric guitar tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11
Tim Posgate – electric guitar tracks 1, 2, 7, 10
Chris Pruden – keyboards, all tracks
Jaron Freeman-Fox – violin tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10; banjo tracks 4,7,10,11; guitar tracks 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11; electric bass tracks 2 & 4; bg vocal tracks 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10; beats track 8
Willow Rutherford – bg vocals tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 11
Gordon Hyland – tenor saxophone tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Caleb Hamilton – trumpet tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 & accordion tracks 6, 10
Roman Tomé – percussion tracks 2, 4 & bg vocals tracks 9, 11
Benjamin Hermann – bg vocals tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 8
Alexis Marsh – clarinet & alto saxophone track 3
Joshua Van Tassel – drums & beats track 1
Spencer Murray – bagpipes track 6 & bg vocal track 8
Isa Holmgren – bg vocal track 2
Leo Krukowski, Angela Sharma – bg vocals track 8
SWACA Community Living Choir tracks 4, 5, 7, 11

Music Produced By Jaron Freeman-Fox
Mastered By Fedge
Bed tracks 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11: recorded May 2nd 2019 at Union Sound. Engineered by Chris Stringer.
Bed tracks 3, 4, 5 & 6: recorded May 13, 2019 at Candle Recording, Engineered by Ewan Kay.
All recording overdubs, editing and mixing at HOB Sound, Summer 2019, by Jaron Freeman-Fox.All Songs © ℗ Ronley Teper 2019 Performed By Ronley Teper and The Lipliners

 

Album Cover Art

Performance Still, “Matriarch” by Nava Waxman
Original 2021 Ltd. Edition Album & Booklet Design by Yesim Tosuner, Backyard Design
Editorial by Marnie Woodrow

This album was made possible by the generous support of The Ontario Arts Council.

 

*Davide Di Saro was awarded a Digital Shorts Grant that help assist in the making of his Animated short for Pimple On the Nose. We acknowledge the generous support of the Canada Council For The Arts.

Canada Council for the Arts

 

 

Special Thanks

The Lyceum Gallery, Holly Venable, Gary Topp, Walt Rickli, Dafydd Hughes, Nick Taylor, Bruce MacKinnon, Beth Washburn, Emma Barnett, Sandro Perri, Patrick McGroarty, Steven Foster, Paul Corby, Nika Teper, Pavel Cingl, Reade Ollivier, Michael Dent, Kerry Doole, Michael Hastead, Simon Rogers, Zoe Dahan, Colleen Mazor, Carlotta Carmichael, Georgia Kurlinas, Cassandra Rutherford, The Dakota Tavern, Cameron House, Baby G, Tranzac, Mavis Harris, Adam Bentley, Sara Franczyk.
AND: thank YOU for listening, watching, and immersing.

In Loving Memory…
Paul Humphrey
Ron Gaskin
Gregg Dahl
Savannah Briand
Chris Levoir
Justin Haynes